"INFECTIOUS DISEASES"

In the run-up to COP28, the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the global health community, is raising its voice to ensure that the impact of climate change on health takes centre stage in the negotiations. WHO

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned of a rising but entirely avoidable number of children dying in Gaza due to restricted access to water and sanitation, after six weeks of aerial bombardment by Israeli forces in response to the 7 October Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel that claimed 1,200 lives and some 240 hostages. UNTV CH

Briefing reporters on Libya, a UN spokesperson said that two months after "deadly floods devastated the east of the country – impacting a quarter of a million people – international support for relief efforts there remains critical.” UNIFEED / FILE

After reports that Israel has agreed to implement four-hour pauses in the fighting in areas of northern Gaza to allow civilians to move south, UN humanitarians on Friday reiterated urgent calls for a humanitarian ceasefire and unimpeded, secure access of aid deliveries into the Palestinian enclave. UNTV CH

The risk of disease spread soars in Gaza as health facilities, water and sanitation systems disrupted, the World Health Organization said. WHO

Tamara Alrifai, for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), speaking from Amman, said that since 21 October, three convoys of humanitarian supplies had gone into the Gaza Strip with a total of 54 trucks. This breakthrough had come through after two weeks of a full siege of the Strip. UNTV CH

The UN aid coordination agency said that in just eight days, three destructive 6.3 magnitude earthquakes rocked western Afghanistan’s province of Herat, killing 2,000 people and affecting 1.6 million. UNTV CH

The humanitarian response to the Karabakh crisis continued apace today as UN agencies and partners warned of urgent health needs among the more than 100,000 refugees left the Region for neighbouring Armenia. UNTV CH

The Assistant Director-General for Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, at the World Health Organization (WHO), Samira Asma, said progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) “has slowed down to a near halt,” and “more than half of the world's population, were not fully covered by essential health services in 2021.” UNIFEED

Twenty-nine metric tonnes of health supplies arrived in Benghazi, Libya, from the WHO Global Logistics Hub in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. WHO